Events noted in 1540

The event pages are experimental; the OCR errors in the text mean
this is incomplete and unreliable but I offer it in the hopes that it
will be of some use. Events shown include births and deaths of
people with their own entries, and also the publication dates of some of
the works cited.

“The Actes of the
Disputation in the cowncell of the empyre, holden at Regenspurg 1” Coverdale, Milesthe pious and learned bishop of Exeter in the reign of Edward VI. was born in Yorkshire in 1487 (?–1568)

“Prayers or Meditations, wherein the mind is stirred patiently to suffer all afflictions here, and to set at
nought the vain prosperitie of this worlde, and always to
long for the everlasting felicitee,” Catherine Parrsixth and last queen to Henry VIII. celebrated for her learning (1512–1548)

“The Defence of a certayne poore Christen Man
who als shuld have beene condemned by the Popes Lawe,” Coverdale, Milesthe pious and learned bishop of Exeter in the reign of Edward VI. was born in Yorkshire in 1487 (?–1568)

“An Abridgment of Erasmus’s Enchiridion militis Christiani,” Coverdale, Milesthe pious and learned bishop of Exeter in the reign of Edward VI. was born in Yorkshire in 1487 (?–1568)

1549

“The Canticles or Balades of Solomon, phraselyke declared in English metres,” Baldwin, Williamaccording to Wood

“A Dialogue or Communycacyon to be had at
a table between two chyldren gathered out of the Holy
Scriptures, by John Bale for his two yonge sonnes, Johan
acid Paule,” Bale, Johnin Latin Baleus or Balæus

Born: Rainolds, Johnone of the most learned and eminent divines of the sixteenth century

“The Ground of Arts, teaching the
perfect worke and practice of Arithmeticke, both in whole
numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact forme
then in former time hath beene set forth,” Recorde, Roberta learned physician and mathematician